Who are we? Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam. What will you do? We're on a transformation journey to be an innovative company at the forefront of the financial services industry's digital transformation. By harnessing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we aim to redefine the financial landscape with intelligent, advice led solutions. Reporting to the Group Data & ML Platform Tech Lead, this is an engineering leadership role focusing on empowering and accelerating autonomous value creation through Insights and ML across Sanlam Group. With your mastery of engineering, your expertise in Data & ML Platforms and your experience of building and leading high performing, autonomous technology teams, you'll ensure business teams across the group make data a source of competitive advantage in their markets. What will make you successful in this role? What success will look like for you 12 months into the role. Build a configurable data ingestion platform: Through a mixture of building and buying, you've assembled a tool suite of ingestion tools, optimized for cost efficiency and reliability. Success will be measured by the consistent achievement of the two-week ingestion target while maintaining high reliability and security. Build a high performing engineering team: You've built a lean, high-ownership, high-agency team with clear missions and success metrics and ensured continuous performance improvement each month. Define and measure team success: Define or refine success metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLO's) for your part of the platform to cover adoption, satisfaction, cost, and reliability. Ensure your teams have everything they need to be successful: Identify the capability and capacity your team needs to be successful, with little dependency on other teams throughout execution. Ensure the team has what they need from other teams: Contract with the other teams you depend on to ensure clear boundaries and high performance to the level you need. Cultivate and maintain a culture of excellence: Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning in your teams. Qualification Matric National Diploma in an Information Technology related discipline or a bachelor's degree in computer science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a quantitative field will be recommended. Experience 7+ years' experience in leading engineering teams with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies. A track record of high impact and investing in your own development. Skills and Thinking Preference Look for ways to do, instead of reasons not to: You are high agency, high ownership in everything you do. Where some see impossible, you see a way: You have strong conviction in our ability to innovate. You move fast and fix things: You publish early and often, and when you fail, you learn and move forward again. You are creating more with less: Scale is built into your thinking from day 1. You seek out and value different perspectives: Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes. Personal Attributes Manages complexity Plans and aligns Optimizes work processes Tech savvy Strategic mindset Collaborates Build a successful career with us We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realize their worth. Core Competencies Collaborates Being resilient Cultivates innovation Customer focus Drives results Turnaround time The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. Our commitment to transformation The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity.
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